Sunday, January 16, 2011

Flowers

Look what I can do...(quoting Bambi)
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Mason's 1!!

Mason's birthday isn't technically until Friday the 14th, but we figured we would just combine birthdays. He wasn't into opening the presents, which was fine with us, the boys helped him out. He got puppets, a sippy cup and some cereal.
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This was pre-cake. I wanted a clean picture before he dove in, but...
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...He hated the cake. He thought we were torturing him every time we put a bite in his mouth. I really wanted one of those pictures where the kids just destroyed the cake, well it has yet to happen with one of my kids. He kept trying to wipe the frosting off his hands.
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Finally he got into it and started to eat the cake....I mean inhale the cake! He LOVED it!
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We just left him alone with his cake on the tray and he went to town, I love this picture.
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Happy Birthday Mason! I can't believe you're one, the time is just flying by. To think a year ago you came out 8 lbs. 3 oz. and just perfect. We love you!

Garrett's 5!

5 years ago my little Garrett made his way into this world after 16 hours in labor and my epidural didn't work. He came out slimy as all get up but has been my most quiet, kind hearted boy. He's always thinking of others, and loves his family. He never lets me leave the house without looking good and always calls me beautiful. For his birthday we took him to Castle park for some golf and arcade games. Afterwards he picked Sizzler to go to dinner where he enjoyed a hamberger and pizza. Then we invited his friends over for cake and icecream.
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Make a wish!!
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These are the great cakes that daddy worked so hard on. Garrett loves them!
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One of his gifts was a nerf gun from Gma & Gpa J. He also got $, stickers, silly bands, a toy story 3 watch, cars cars, handy mandy and a game....very spoiled.
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This is my two cute birthday boys. Mason's is friday so we just celebrated with Garrett.
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Happy Birthday Buddy!!

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Backyard Fun

I told the boys not to play in the bucket of water, so I dumped it out. I immediately regreted my decision when I watch Gavin run right to the water yelling "Mud!!!" I should have gotten an after shot because he was one dirty boy!
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I stuck Mason outside to play with the boys and they all stayed out there for over an hour.
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Saturday, January 1, 2011

Legos

This year Garrett was spoiled with LEGOS!!! He got them from both Grandparents and was/is in heaven!!
These were some of the things that Garrett and Eli did together. Garrett is inseparable with these things.
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These two boys spent a lot of time together building all sorts of things.
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Then these two boys spent time building things together.
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Christmas morning

Christmas for us didn't start this year until December 26th. Eli had to work Christmas Eve and Day but had the next 4 days off so we decided to post pone Christmas and lie to the kids while we still can ;) We left for Phoeniz, AZ at 12:00am on December 26th. We got to my parents house at 6:00am and stayed up the entire day until 10:00pm the night of the 26th. The kids had a great Christmas and it was nice to spend it with family rather then do it alone like we usually do. I don't think the kids had a favorite gift, they loved them all.

This is Garrett the day after Christmas, he couldn't decided what to play with so he figured he would just carry it all around with him...smart boy :)
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My brothers Riley and Dallas got these toys and my kids loved them.
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Makayla, Garrett and Gavin all got a reindeer nose in there stockings, but I never did get a picture of Gavin in his.
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We had a great Christmas!!

11 months old

Mason's 11 months old now and is getting cuter and cuter everyday. He's learned to crawl "normal" (I hate that word "normal") he's pulling himself up to every thing now and has two bottom teeth, can ya see 'em? He went from 14 lbs. 3 oz. to 15 lbs. 9 oz. in 3 days and he's just the perfect little boy! His surgery has healed well and we want to thank those of you who prayed for us and him through all our tough times.
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Movie Night

This Christmas a bunch of friends lent us some Christmas movies since we don't have any nor do we have TV. So we all layed down together and watch Rudolph the red nose reindeer with hot cocoa.
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WARNING

Don't put straws in the dishwasher, they may grow twice there size and lose there shape!
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